Essay on Blackboard

In the 21st century learning is seen as a lifelong process, therefore a teacher’s main role is to facilitate learning. A teacher cannot learn for their students, and thus must focus on creating a positive environment and encourages student participation (Scrivener, 2011). In order to accomplish this task and be a successful as a teacher, I will need to continuously develop and refine various 21st century skills and attributes within myself. Novel and adaptive thinking is just one of the many…

Gone are the days where schools contained a standard blackboard or whiteboard and exercise books for every student. Nowadays, schools have incorporated new technologies such as online library databases, laptops for students, interactive whiteboards and online reports into their education system. This fast-growing development is supplying a larger majority of students with more opportunities to flourish as learning and an individual. Firstly, in light of Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence…

Chapter five of The View from Saturday starts off with Mrs. Laurencin, the principal of Epiphany Middle School, calling Mrs. Olinski up to her office. Mrs. Laurencin warns Mrs. Olinski that she must have an answer ready for any parents of high honor roll students that didn’t make the Academic Bowl team. After this conversation with Mrs. Laurencin, Mrs. Olinski makes efforts to think about how she should pick her Academic Bowl Team. Then, on a Saturday in late October, while grading social…

Firstly, learning to navigate Blackboard was probably the single greatest thing that I learned. My high school, for example, did not use it, and so I have to learn the interface in order to monitor my grades and keep track of assignments and announcements given by my instructors. It’s…

examination. These responsibilities were fairly manageable, but they got challenging when students turned in group assignments with no name, and I will have to go through the roster to know who is in that particular group or when there is a glitch in blackboard and some tests were…

Academic Benchmarks A. 1. I will learn to follow a course syllabus. The purpose of a syllabus is to layout the semester’s work, in and outside the classroom, for the student by the professor. A syllabus contains basic information, such as course name, location, credit hours, instructor information, required texts, prerequisites, course description, and provides course purpose. Grading procedures, assignments, course policies, and participation credit are also included to inform the student how…

The edge of the yellowish wallpaper inside is peeling off. The traces of chalk are all over the blackboard. Opposite to the blackboard, there are a few juniors having lunch quietly under the desolate spinning fan. Others are having a good time with friends outside the corridors, with a bright smile hanging on their faces. I can still hear their laughter miles away…

In Unit V, lessons one and two was an excellent guide to follow as I began the process of revising my literature review assignment. However, what I have discovered in the revision process that was most accommodating for me, was to read each sentence thoroughly to prevent sentence fragment, comma spices, and run-on-sentence. Also, I realized that after I had corrected and made necessary changes to my initial literature review, putting the project away for several hours and then returning helped…

SC1 Capacity to undertake routine support tasks across a range of functions in one or more work areas within a school environment. With experience managing small and large projects I have the ability to meet simultaneous timelines by effectively prioritising time on tasks and providing regular updates on the progress of work requirements and responsibilities. SC2 Demonstrated capacity to communicate effectively with members of the school community including students and the capacity to…

on themselves (this certainly isn’t true for all of the speakers, but this applied to at least two of the speakers in my opinion). For the speakers who did not do this, they are emulating a lesson that Mrs. Stacey Beck demonstrated in “Beyond the Blackboard”. This lesson is that there is no superman coming around to deal with all of the problems, we all have to take our own initiatives if we really want to see change…